DEFCON game says "Invalid Key"

[Michael Terry]

I'm not sure where to file bugs like this, so I'm filing here.

If you purchase the DEFCON game (package 'defcon') and run it, it says 'Invalid Key' at the bottom and pops up a dialog asking for your authorization key. Or you can play the demo.

Seems wrong.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.1.13.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-20.32-generic-pae 3.2.12
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-20-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu1
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 9a284f3f6b4f7829abbe27ad9573a709
CheckboxSystem: 3935143777c965daaa64b51f0134f712
Date: Fri Mar 30 10:26:54 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110422)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-11-05 (145 days ago)

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

Michael if you look at the email that thanked you for buying the game the key is in there or you can goto https://software-center.ubuntu.com/subscription look for defcon and the key will be listed there too

Hope that helps

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Yup! It's there, thanks! My bad. Now I just have to figure out how to get it into the software, since copy and paste didn't work. :)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

The log says:
2012-03-30 10:21:50,214 - softwarecenter.backend - INFO - adding license key for 'defcon'

So something is happening, its supposed to be available in /opt/defcon/authkey
There should be some additional information in the /var/log/syslog file from aptdaemon.

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

I see the following in /var/log/syslog:

"""
Mar 30 10:21:50 tambo AptDaemon: INFO: AddLicenseKey() was called
Mar 30 10:21:50 tambo AptDaemon.Trans: INFO: Queuing transaction /org/debian/apt
/transaction/7c0ba69b0ea0464983cad9205832f95a
Mar 30 10:21:50 tambo AptDaemon.Worker: INFO: Simulating trans: /org/debian/apt/
transaction/7c0ba69b0ea0464983cad9205832f95a
Mar 30 10:23:03 tambo AptDaemon.Worker: INFO: Processing transaction /org/debian/apt/transaction/7c0ba69b0ea0464983cad9205832f95a
Mar 30 10:23:03 tambo AptDaemon.Worker: INFO: Finished transaction /org/debian/apt/transaction/ba72a85b7b5141bfa2bef64e1c7d0889
Mar 30 10:23:08 tambo AptDaemon.Worker: INFO: Writing license key to '/opt/defcon/authkey'
Mar 30 10:23:08 tambo AptDaemon.Worker: INFO: Finished transaction /org/debian/apt/transaction/7c0ba69b0ea0464983cad9205832f95a
"""

Unfortunately, I've since entered the correct key, so that file just contains the real key now (world-readable!). I don't know what got put there by AptDaemon. Though I will note that when DEFCON came up, it had a few characters of garbage unicode at the front of the key, so presumably the contents of that file were junk.

[Gary Lasker (gary-lasker)]

Based on Michael's comment #5, I've set this back to "confirmed". Dave, could you please test this and try to reproduce the error? Thanks! I'll assign to you for this step.

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

Right so on precise it now has the ability to write a key to the root directory of the application.
If an application utilises this like transitions dj then the user doesn't need to add a key to the application.

However most of the apps currently available with keys are ports of windows apps where you need to type the key in separately.

As for the issue you see with the application itself I will look into that and see what is what.

[Dave Morley (davmor2)]

This is one of the apps not making use of the file for the key.

The key itself seems to be the big bug here I'm guessing it shouldn't be readable by the world, so we will look into that.